2 Peter 2:2
Context2:2 And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. 1 Because of these false teachers, 2 the way of truth will be slandered. 3
2 Peter 2:18
Context2:18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words 4 they are able to entice, 5 with fleshly desires and with debauchery, 6 people 7 who have just escaped 8 from those who reside in error. 9
1 tn “Debauched lifestyles” is literally “licentiousnesses,” “sensualities,” “debaucheries.”
2 tn Grk “because of whom,” introducing a subordinate clause to the first part of the verse.
3 tn Or “blasphemed,” “reviled,” “treated with contempt.”
4 tn Grk “high-sounding words of futility.”
5 tn Grk “they entice.”
6 tn Grk “with the lusts of the flesh, with debauchery.”
7 tn Grk “those.”
8 tn Or “those who are barely escaping.”
9 tn Or “deceit.”